St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27
CHARLEY G1LMAN's CALF.
The Cyclone Blew the Bottom of q
Glass Dish Into Its Forehead.

The Cyclone Blew the Bottom of q
Glass Dish Into Its Forehead.
A white SLOUGH hat, a pair of shaggy
eyebrows and Charley Gilman were
drifting around together yesterday aft
ernoon at the Merchants. A cotton
umbrella was also on familiar terms
with the shrewd politician, and he
Rugged it tenderly to his breast as he
carried on deSultOry conversation
with Maj. Strait and Congressman Mac
Donald.
To GLOBE reporter the ex-lieutenant
governor said that there had been no
cyclones in the vicinity of ST. Cloud this
summer, either political or elemental,
and as the conversation took drift in
the direction of cyclones, Mr.. Gilman
said: Some things occurred during
that cyclone that swept across
my farm year ago last spring that have
that was in st. Paul at the time and
went up to St. Cloud on special train,
expecting to find my house blown into
the river. In this was happily disap-
pointed, but there were evidences that
the cyclone had swept through my back
yard, and the next morning when [
went out to look around heard a blat:
coming out of the air, and looking up [
saw a likely looking Jersey calf hang
ing in the branches of a big pear tree.
l summoned my hired man, and to-
getherwe managed to get the calf down,
and found that he was all right with the
exception of his forehead. This part of
the calf's head was bleeding, and upon
examination we found til at portion
of a glass dish, that looked like
Of lN,,f% t.e,1x l,.x. l.
blown into the forehead, and was fixed
there SO tightly it was impossible to re-
move it. The animal didn't seem to
suffer from the wound, and, washing
the blood out of its eyes, we gave it
some cut hay and oats, which it. ate
ravenouSly. Up to the present time the
calf has continued to grow
STRONG AND FAT,
and 1t has become curiosity in the
neighbOrhOod, for through the bottom
of the glass dish the workin of the calf's.
brain can be plainly seen. The wound
around the edges of the glasshas healed.
and the animal walks around like a
bulPS-eye lantern. One curiOns fast in
the case is that have never been lable
to discover where the calf came from,
but it was probably picked up by the.
wind in its rush and brought down and
hung up in the tree" n
As Mr.. Gilman wound up this MARIA
tive, he made aright-shOulder-s hiftwithi
his umbrella, ard tipping his timber hat
on the back of his head, continued;E
"There is another peculiar thing that
happened during that cyclone, want
to tell you about. 1 had nice young
orchard of apple trees in the track Of
the wind, and several of them were; torn
up considerably. expected that many;
OF them We're killed, but last spring.
they leayed out, and when they came to,
blessomI noticed something peculiar
about them, and, upon examination,
found that twigs of. cherry and peach
branches, had been woven intO0 the
limbs of the trees and had become.
firmly engrafted there. Pye got one
tree that is a geeat curiosity, and next
year I expect to pick cherries, peaches,
pears and apples from it's branches.
Yes cyclones are very funny things,
but | don't want any of them to monkey
around my premises, if you please"